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`King of owls` discovered in a China desert
Beijing, May 18: Seven huge owls, each weighing more than eight kilograms, have been discovered in an oasis in the Muus Desert of northwest China`s Shaanxi province, a report said today.
Beijing, May 18: Seven huge owls, each weighing more than eight kilograms, have been discovered in an oasis in the Muus Desert of northwest China`s Shaanxi province, a report said today.
The owls were found by a contractor at a Wild Cherry forest in Yulin city on may 13, Xinhua news agency reported.
The giant owls, 80 centimetres tall and with a wing span reaching one metre, are capable of taking adult hares, their main prey.
Although no biologists have made a formal study of them, some people believed they could be described as the "king of the owls", the agency said.
With a total land area of 1,00,230 square kilometres, the Muus Desert is located in the territories of Shaanxi and the inner Mongolia autonomous region.
The cherry forest where the owls live covers an area of about 560 acres, a rare green oasis in the vast desert.
The wild cherry trees that grow there have been listed by the state association for the protection of endangered wild plants, the report said.
Bureau Report
The giant owls, 80 centimetres tall and with a wing span reaching one metre, are capable of taking adult hares, their main prey.
Although no biologists have made a formal study of them, some people believed they could be described as the "king of the owls", the agency said.
With a total land area of 1,00,230 square kilometres, the Muus Desert is located in the territories of Shaanxi and the inner Mongolia autonomous region.
The cherry forest where the owls live covers an area of about 560 acres, a rare green oasis in the vast desert.
The wild cherry trees that grow there have been listed by the state association for the protection of endangered wild plants, the report said.
Bureau Report